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I’d like to know more about the principles of the “coalition made up of people who make adult entertainment” referenced in the article.

Yeah so let’s not pretend we don’t know whose interests are really being represented here.

I explained that. And the first line of the article references a “coalition made up of people who make adult entertainment”

A federal lawsuit will be way more “annoying” than acquiring an in-state license, installing a VPN, or any number of other alternatives. Seems like this person is a front for moneyed interests.

These are mere personal preferences. Any connection to a broader agenda is a conspiracy theory.

What if a country's economy doesn't make widgets at all but merely controls the system of international finance which is premised upon its own debt?

Who cares about taxes when you can print money?

This is a profoundly myopic analysis, and I’m surprised it holds any sway on a forum which prizes itself on “disruption” thinking. This is the equivalent of predicting Facebook will never overtake MySpace in 2006.

The immediate trend is towards trade denominated in various national currencies, but the ultimate trend is towards bootstrapping a new commodity-backed reserve currency via an international organization such as BRICS.

Arguing that USD won’t be displaced because it’s entrenched in various systems and used a lot completely misses the point that the underlying factors which created that state of affairs in the first place have collapsed.

How is it similar?

Nicely done take on the form. The original game of this type was a Japanese Java applet known as "Falling sand game". I'm not sure it's preserved anywhere though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling-sand_game

Is this the threshold of credulity now for extraordinary claims? The authorities arrested people so they must have done something wrong? This way of thinking seems fraught historically.

I know there are about a billion articles in Western media claiming this, but what's the actual evidence?

> China had secret police stations in the US trying to capture Chinese dissidents

What's the evidence for this?

> "Mr. Yu observed a culture of lawlessness within the company," the suit says. "This ByteDance culture focused on growth at all costs. The attitude was to violate the law first, continue to grow, and pay fines later."

Damn these dirty communists! That's not how we do business in Silicon Valley!

You think so? According to the media your description would apply to everyone who voted for Trump.

You are only proving your ignorance to anyone who knows what those two terms mean

So no answer to my question. In the US can anyone be a corporate board member? Or is it gated by myriad social factors such as having attended an elite B school and proving yourself as a loyal servant of Wall Street bankers?

Do you not live in the US or what?

What percent of boards in the US are staffed by Democrats and Republicans (our one party with two names)?

The kolkhozes were not owned by the state in the Soviet Union. State-owned enterprises represent about 20% of total employment in China. Ownership is simply contingent and limited according to determinate social ends (as opposed to the total anarchy of the market in classical capitalism), but the same is true of every modern economy in the world.

As you say, the difference is whose interests dictate these ends: those of ordinary citizens or those of the monopolies and international finance.

Has it occurred to you that most other places make barely any manufactured goods at all compared to China? Particularly basic materials like steel. How do you factor that into your calculations? The US will look pretty good on your chosen metric because our primary exports are soybeans, credit, and IP.

But it doesn’t matter regardless because any attempt to impose authoritarian climate measures on China will send the West into economic crisis, one way or another.

“environmentally destructive population increase” - Wow, that’s one I didn’t expect to hear openly so soon.

Oh yeah, the multinationals are so afraid of regulations from the captured state which further entrench their existing monopolies. They’re so afraid of the military being dispatched from the centers of international finance to suppress and seize potential threats in developing countries. All in the name of “the planet”.

I’m no longer moved by the linguistic arms race to describe the outputs of unproven computer models in ever more extreme terms. Are you educated on Chinese policy in this area?

Everyone who talks about China’s “horrible” emissions always avoids referencing cumulative, per capita, or, even worse, cumulative per capita numbers because they really interfere with the desired narrative.

Yeah the American people outnumber the FBI by a huge margin

Beautiful green ecofascism. You are truly on the cutting edge ideologically.

What about cumulative emissions?

You can’t understand the US government without recognizing it as a substrate for inter-factional conflict between different segments of the ruling class. It’s organized crime and gang warfare all the way down.

Yes, such as Black Cube

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cube